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http://matplotlib.org/users/customizing.html

import matplotlib as mpl; 
mpl.rcParams['font.family'] = 'STIXGeneral';
mpl.rcParams['axes.labelsize'] = '18';
mpl.rcParams['xtick.labelsize'] = '18';
mpl.rcParams['ytick.labelsize'] = '18';
mpl.rcParams['axes.grid'] = 'True';
mpl.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = '5,4';
mpl.rcParams['savefig.pad_inches'] = '0.1';
mpl.rcParams['savefig.bbox'] = 'tight';

http://ask.sagemath.org/question/11355/cyrillic-text-on-the-plot

http://ask.sagemath.org/question/9581/markers-in-list_plot/?answer=14317#post-id-14317

list_plot([(1,2),(2,2),(3,3)],plotjoined=True,linestyle='',marker='v')